Lebanese army says it is readying to move south
As the ceasefire holds, Lebanon’s army has said it is getting ready to move into the south of the country and “carry out its mission” under UN Resolution 1701. In a statement, the army called on people from front-line villages not to return home until after the Israeli military withdraws.
In other areas of the country, the army urged citizens to be on the lookout for “unexploded ordnance and suspicious objects left behind” by Israeli forces.
Lebanese residents return, survey the damage in war-torn Nabatieh
Thousands of people are returning to their homes, if indeed they have homes to return to.
We are in the old historic market of Nabatieh, a city that has come under a lot of bombardment in recent weeks. The market has been levelled to the ground. Many neighbourhoods in the city look like this, with destruction on every street corner.
For people here, this was part of a strategy of displacement. We have to remember that Lebanon before the war was already on the brink of collapse economically. So picking up the pieces is not going to be easy.
Scenes of destruction in Beirut’s southern suburbs following ceasefire
Video footage below shows scenes of destruction in southern Beirut after the ceasefire took effect, as verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad. The footage shows damage from strikes just before the ceasefire in the areas of Chiyah, Ghobeiry, Haret Hreik and other neighbourhoods.
منطقة حارة حريك في الضاحية الجنوبية بعد وقف إطلاق النار pic.twitter.com/jAWprorz19
— Anbaa Online (@AnbaaOnline) November 27, 2024
Translation: Haret Hreik area in the southern suburb after the ceasefire.
‘At any point, this war could start again’
Sami Nader, a Middle East analyst who is the director of the Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs, predicts that the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah will not hold permanently.
Speaking from Beirut, Nader told Al Jazeera the agreement is “very fragile” because the underlying sources of conflict are still present – Israel and Lebanon have reached no final settlement and war in Gaza continues to rage. Nader also noted that Israel has asserted the right to intervene if it deems Hezbollah to be in violation of the truce.
“At any point in time this war could start again,” said Nader.
Israel says troops fired at vehicles in southern Lebanon, but ceasefire in effect
The military says on X that in the last hour, its troops “identified a number of vehicles in Lebanese territory with suspects in a restricted area”, and fired on them, without elaborating on what the people were suspected of.
The “suspects” then moved away, and the incident was finished, it said.
It also confirmed officially that the ceasefire went into effect this morning at 04:00 local time (06:00 GMT). Its “forces are drawn up in their positions in southern Lebanon”, according to the military.
